Banner VC

Austin, TX · Invests in US · Website

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Seed Series A Series B Growth B2B SaaS Developer Tools Healthcare & Biotech Space & Defense Robotics Hardware & DevicesAerospace & DefenseSemiconductors & HardwareRobotics & AutomationHealthcare & Digital HealthEnterprise Software

Thesis

Accelerating the GDP of America by investing in early-stage private companies revolutionizing critical industries — aerospace, AI infrastructure, hardware, autonomous robotics, and healthcare. Banner VC backs American industrial reindustrialization with founders building foundational infrastructure for the economy.

Likely not a fit for

Not focused on consumer apps, B2B SaaS for non-critical industries, or purely software plays without a hardware or infrastructure component. Not international.

How they invest

Lead or follow: Usually leads
Involvement: Takes a board seat
Fund status: Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt: $220M
Decision process: Partnership vote

Partners & team

2 contacts on file

Adam Ramada

General PartnerManaging Partner · Primary contact

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a•••@ba•••.com

LinkedIn profile

Brooks Morgan

General PartnerCo-Founder

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Portfolio

Impulse SpaceAerospace Defense

Impulse Space is developing in-space mobility infrastructure to enable efficient transport of payloads across and between orbits, facilitating commercial, civil, and government missions.

Mesh Optical TechnologiesManufacturing Industrial

Mesh Optical Technologies designs and manufactures advanced optical systems at scale, focusing on optical transceivers for high-speed data transfer in AI clusters and power-constrained data centers.

SpacexAerospace Defense

SpaceX designs and manufactures rockets and spacecraft, founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology. It offers human spaceflight and research opportunities.

x.aiEnterprise Software

x.ai is a company focused on advanced AI, known for its Grok product and recently raised $20B in Series E funding. It offers an API and has a careers section.

Terra FirmaEnterprise Software

TerraFirma is building the tools to unblock the bottlenecks in construction through software, operational improvements, and robotics, aiming to redefine construction processes for efficiency and safety.

SpecialEnterprise Software

Special is a holding company developing an AI operating system to transform critical American industries.

Recent activity

Impulse Space
Series D · Co-Lead
Jun 2026
Special
Seed · Participated
Jun 2026
Mesh Optical
Series A · Participated
Feb 2026

Banner VC in the news

Focuses on high-growth Colorado companies located outside the Front Range, prioritizing rural entrepreneurship and community-focused growth to expand opportunity and build sustainable communities.

AeroX Ventures$250K–$3M

Early-stage aerospace and defense fund focused on technically validated, revenue-generating (often bootstrapped) startups, offering shared beyond visual line of sight testing via state-funded urban low-altitude radar. AeroX Ventures is built on top of state-funded urban low-altitude surveillance radar in Winston-Salem, giving portfolio companies access to shared beyond visual line of sight testing infrastructure that startups elsewhere would normally have to finance themselves.

Founders Fund$500K–$50M

Atas VC

Buckley Ventures$2M–$32M

Solo GP Josh Buckley—former teenage founder and Product Hunt CEO—makes concentrated, conviction-driven bets, leveraging a lean team that moves with angel-like speed and can lead sizable rounds.

Research briefRead more

Banner VC Research Investment Thesis Banner VC is an Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm founded in 2025 by Adam Ramada and Brooks Morgan following their departure from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in August 2025. The firm's tagline — "Accelerating the GDP of America" — captures its core mission: backing early-stage private companies that are revolutionizing critical America…